Robotics

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. “A part of our NVIDIA GEAR lab now self-improves tirelessly overnight. We just read the reports in the morning.” That’s Jim Fan, director of AI at Nvidia, describing what happened when his team gave AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and — in his words — a “generous token budget.” The agents didn’t just follow instructions. They wrote their own training programs, tested them on real robots, debugged failures, and iterated until the robots could cut zip ties and insert GPUs into motherboard sockets with 99% accuracy. All while the researchers slept. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. A startup called MicroAGI is offering free home cleaning in New York City. No catch — they say. You book a appointment, a professional cleaner shows up, cleans your home, and you pay nothing. The only detail? They’re recording everything. Every room, every surface, every object in your house. The footage goes straight into training data for robots that will one day clean your home autonomously. ...